The reaction to it was interesting – by this time people had already associated computers with the blue screen of death so it must have come as no surprise that even this giant screen would display a blue screen of death sometimes. People accepted it as an inevitable fact of life.

I also used to see the Win98 BSOD on ‘information’ panels sometimes around the city (these panels are mainly for tourists).

Sadly, I miss the old Windows-98 style BSOD. You don’t see it as much any more.

I’ll give you the super-cheap hardware. I’ll give you the games that haven’t yet or won’t ever be released for the Mac. I’ll even give you the “customization” (though I’ve seen modded G3/G4 systems, so this is a freebie).

But aside from a few hardcore gamers, I doubt you’ll find many Mac users jealous of anything Windows.

Just because less people use Mac I wouldn’t call it ‘their little system’, as all I ever hear about Mac’s is ‘it works, easily’.

I use windows out of familiarity and some programs/games I am fond of. I experiment with linux because its great and I want to learn more about it. Also both windows and linux run on my architecture of choice, X86.
I also won’t ever consider a Mac, just out of my current familiarities & preference for an architecture you can truly customise the hardware and software of from the ground up.

Eh I have wondered offtopic a little.

No software is bullet proof.